old fashioned blackberry cake
Grandma liked berries of all kinds. This is an old recipe that she adapted from the original version that her mother baked in a wood fired oven.
prep time
15 Min
cook time
35 Min
method
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yield
10 serving(s)
Ingredients
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 cup boiling water
- 1 cup softened butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 - beaten eggs
- 1 teaspoon each cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and salt
- 2 cups blackberries with juice (if fresh, mash slightly, if frozen, thaw)
- 1 cup peach preserves
- 2 teaspoons baking soda mixed in 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- - powdered sugar and blackberries for topping and filling baked cake
How To Make old fashioned blackberry cake
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Step 1Soak raisins in water, set aside. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs. Mix. Stir in cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and salt. Mix. Add blackberries, peach preserves, and buttermilk. mix. Add flour and mix until all are combined. Grease and flour cake pans. Bake in 3 round layers at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Cool.
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Step 2Slightly mash blackberries. To assemble cake: Place one layer on cake plate. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Sprinkle some mashed berries on top of sugar. Repeat with the next two layers. Be sure not to put too many berries (or big pieces of berries) in between layers of cake or layers might slide off each other.
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